NJ Transit train hits car on railroad tracks in Bergen County

Bob Sciarrino/ The Star-LedgerAuthorities are investigating a collision tonight between an NJ Transit commuter train and a car at the Main Street crossing in North Hackensack.

NORTH HACKENSACK — A commuter train struck a car that apparently drove around downed railroad gates at the Main Street crossing in North Hackensack tonight, a transit official said.

The crash occurred at about 8 p.m. on NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line, said NJ Transit spokeswoman Courtney Carroll. No injuries were reported.

Rail traffic was halted until a tow truck arrived at the scene and removed the car shortly before 9 p.m., Carroll said.

The train involved in the crash was delayed about an hour, she said, and another commuter train was delayed for 15 minutes.

In an unrelated incident, a Mount Arlington woman drove her car into a freight train in Morris Township yesterday, police said. The woman was driving on East Hanover Avenue around 10 a.m. when her 2007 Volkswagen Passat crashed into the caboose of a two-car freight train.